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Queen Rhaenyra

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They're working 😌

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A Feast for Crows - The Soiled Knight

"The first Viserys intended his daughter Rhaenyra to follow him, do you deny it? But as the king lay dying the Lord Commander of his Kingsguard decided that it should be otherwise."

Ser Criston Cole. Criston the Kingmaker had set brother against sister and divided the Kingsguard against itself, bringing on the terrible war the singers named the Dance of the Dragons. Some claimed he acted from ambition, for Prince Aegon was more tractable than his willful older sister. Others allowed him nobler motives, and argued that he was defending ancient Andal custom. A few whispered that Ser Criston had been Princess Rhaenyra's lover before he took the white and wanted vengeance on the woman who had spurned him. "The Kingmaker wrought grave harm," Ser Arys said, "and gravely did he pay for it, but . . ."

". . . but perhaps the Seven sent you here so that one white knight might make right what another set awry. You do know that when my father returns to the Water Gardens he plans to take Myrcella with him?"

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Snowstorm!

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Hazzea was enough. What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children?

Daenerys IV, A Dance with Dragons

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It’s disturbing how people always want to bring up Dany’s dead male ancestors, but never her female ancestors. They want her to be the scapegoat for the actions of long dead men whom she’s never met, but ignore the enduring tradition of suffering and suppressed Targaryen women, that she is actively subverting…almost all Targaryen women after the conqueror’s wives (and we can argue all day about how much power or autonomy even they had, tbh) were passed over in some way or another in favor of a man, many losing their lives in the process, or enduring sexual violence, forced birth, unimaginable horrors, and in Rhaenyra’s case a bloody, terrible war. All for the crime of being born women. Daenerys is not the sacrificial lamb that all of her male ancestors’ sins are transubstantiated onto, that is such a tired, lazy, and misogynistic way to look at her story…she is the breaker of generational chains for her female ancestors. She is the star after the tower. The empress of the dawn. She is hope and healing, not destruction and rage. Dragons plant no trees, true, but Dany does.

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add a formerly extinct species to the ‘named after the greatest fictional character of all time’ list

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~Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen; First of Her Name, Rightful Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms~

FINALLY FINISHED THIS WIP!!! School and family stuff was beating my ass, so I had to put a massive pause on this one, but it's finally done T_T I just had to rep my RIGHTFUL queen Rhae-Rhae, I love her to infinity and beyond!!! I rrly do need to draw her more tho... anyways, I think I'm going to draw more asoiaf portraits and make it a little series. idk who I should draw next tho, maybe Daenerys? Or another character from the dance? I'm open to request lmao

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#king and queen of being done

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Every time someone says Dany is the antithesis of all her ancestors I just fully disagree. She embodies the best of them while not having the traits of the worst of them. I think people say this cause there is this general notion of “Targaryen bad” but we have examples of Targaryens who are good, kind, compassionate.

We also have examples of them being ruthless, just, and fierce. We have dreamers, we have targs who cared about the small folk. We have targs who wanted to make Westeros a better place. Not every single Targaryen is some fire wielding, evil monster who only causes death & destruction. It’s a disservice to them and Dany to act like they were.

The way people talk about the Targaryen family as if they are some fully evil, family with no nuance is so baffling to me. We have so many examples in fire & blood or Dunk and Egg that they are quite literally just people. They are not closer to gods than men, that’s just propaganda that people believe. It makes sense why in story characters believe that but why do the actual fans reading it believe that? Anyway sorry for the rant but this has been on my mind for some time now.

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Laena velaryon inspired by doechii at pfw

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happy women’s day

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Dany looked at the horizon with despair. They had lost a third of their number, and still the waste stretched before them, bleak and red and endless. The comet mocks my hopes, she thought, lifting her eyes to where it scored the sky. Have I crossed half the world and seen the birth of dragons only to die with them in this hard hot desert? She would not believe it.

Freya Allan as 14-year-old book!Daenerys Targaryen

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Another day of disregarding evidence in favor of self serving headcanons brought to you by the piss poor reading website :(

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Dany in Meereen

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“I have my own kingdom here.”

asoiaf characters / saera targaryen

the ninthborn child and fifthborn daughter of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen.